{"product_id":"artist-drawing-a-portrait-of-a-man-albrecht-durer","title":"Artist Drawing a Portrait of a Man - Albrecht Dürer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 1525 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer from his treatise on measurement, showing an artist who uses a glass frame and a fixed sight to draw a seated man in correct perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eAlbrecht Dürer (1471–1528), the German painter and printmaker from Nuremberg, designed this woodcut for his treatise Underweysung der Messung, first published in Nuremberg in 1525. The full title, Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, means instruction in measurement with compass and ruler. The book set out geometry for artists and craftsmen, and this illustration shows one of its drawing devices in use.\nThe scene is a bedroom with a canopied bed hung with heavy curtains. On the left a man sits in a chair with a scrolled arm, turned in profile towards the artist. On the right the artist stands at a tall table that holds an upright wooden frame with a pane of glass. He keeps his eye at a small sight on top of a vertical rod, so that his point of view stays fixed, and with a brush he traces the outline of the sitter onto the glass. A small pot stands on the table, a long chest stands against the wall behind him, and a candlestick and a hat sit on the floor between the two men.\nDürer drew the scene for the block in close parallel hatching. The lines model the deep folds of the bed curtains and the clothes of both men, while the frame, the rod and the legs of the table are drawn as plainly as a diagram. That plain drawing suits a book that teaches a method: the reader can see how each part of the device is built and where the artist must stand.\nImpressions of the woodcut are held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (17.37.90), the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the British Museum in London. It is catalogued as Bartsch 146. 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